was online Tuesday, June 17 to discuss her Poet's Choice column, her best-selling 1995 memoir The Liars' Club, and the joys, seductions and struggles of the writing life. Karr is the Jesse Truesdale Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University. She is the author of two memoirs, The Liars' Club and Cherry, and four volumes of poetry, most recently Sinners Welcome. She joined Book World as Poet's Choice columnist in March 2008.
A blessing from My Sixteen Years Son
from Mary Karr: The Washington Post: Book World: Poet's Choice: Poetry, Writing and 'The Liars' Club'
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Nearly 30 years after my daddy's death, I can still miss him with throat-clenching force. As a child, I shadowed him through pool halls, but--with time and alcohol--he eventually dwindled into a form that fit nowhere except on a barstool at the Veterans' Club. Maybe vets of that great generation created a distance inside them that distanced their kids, a sadness that's made for some great poems.
Edward Hirsch (who once squired this column into print) portrays a father who sold containers while himself containing mysteries.
from Mary Karr: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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